The Day After the Paleoclimatologist

A paleoclimatologist walks into a bar (okay, really a usenet group) and says "I won't see The Day After Tomorrow unless somebody pays me $100." One thing leads to another, and before you know it he has to write a review (spoilers herein):

The movie is at its most stunningly accurate in its portrayal of paleoclimatologists.

Paleoclimatologists are notoriously brave and of course very fit. Nary a one of us would hesitate to jump a widening crevasse - twice - while wearing arctic gear - to recover some ice cores which would take 2-3 hours to re-drill. We're watching out for *your* tax dollars. Score one for the movie.

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